Publicis Groupe announced a global initiative Publisis90 to celebrate its 90th anniversary and selected 90 promising start-ups and ideas which will receive their support. Ukrainians were among 90 winners out of 6000 start-ups and the only team from the countries ...
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Kyiv launches first municipal bike rental in Ukraine
On July 5, the first municipal bike rental started work in a test mode in Ukraine’s capital, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UNIAN. The presentation of the service took place at noon. There are eight rental locations all over Kyiv. ...
Read More »Making history: Juno probe enters Jupiter’s orbit
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) ...
Read More »Higher education in Norway
According to the Ministry of Education and Research, there are about 70 public and private institutions of higher learning located throughout Norway, from Kristiansand in the south to Svalbard in the North, Joinfo.ua reports. Norway has 8 universities, 20 university colleges ...
Read More »NATO to make decision on four battalions – Stoltenberg
“During our summit in Warsaw we will decide on further strengthening our military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance. We will send four rapid, multi-national battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. I welcome Canada’s declaration that it ...
Read More »Manchester University to weather Brexit storm
University bosses in Greater Manchester insist they’ll weather the Brexit storm, but admit the referendum result wasn’t what they expected – or wanted, the Manchester Evening News reports. The historic result is likely to have a big impact on the ...
Read More »Save the date: Ukraine to host Lviv IT Arena 2016
More than 2500 tech lovers from Ukraine and Eastern Europe will gather in Lviv for a major IT event, Lviv IT Arena 2016, to be held on September 30 – October 2 in Ukraine’s western city, UA Today reports. In ...
Read More »What Brexit means for Ukraine
After British voters approved a referendum to leave the EU on June 23, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for European Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said: “We respect the British citizens’ decision, but Ukraine feels sorry for these events. To my mind this ...
Read More »Norway tops UN development rankings
Norway leads the United Nations development rankings. In 2015 the country has again earned the highest score of 0.944 based on three key indicators: wealth, education and life expectancy. Its life expectancy is 81.6 years, gross national income (GNI) per ...
Read More »Ukraine’s aerospace Industry to develop NATO-nation partnerships
The best-known products of Ukrainian aerospace industry are probably the massive Antonov An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya cargo lifters, which are the two largest aircraft in the world. Both types were revealed back in the waning days of the Soviet ...
Read More »Ukraine sets a new grain export record
Ukraine beats the record for the export of grain in the 2015/2016 marketing year, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to 112 TV channel. “Export data for the current year is very successful, as of June 29, has been exported 39 million ...
Read More »U.S. opens investigation in Tesla after fatal crash in Autopilot mode
A fatal accident in which the driver of a Tesla Motors Inc Model S car operating in Autopilot mode was killed in a collision with a truck has prompted an investigation by federal highway safety regulators, the U.S. government and ...
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